Fred Haines
Fred Haines ( born February 27, 1936 in Los Angeles, California; † 4 May 2008 Venice, California ) was an American screenwriter and film director.
Life
Haines grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and served 1953-1956 in the United States Navy. During this time he married the first time. His marriage with the daughter of his commanding admiral of the emerged two children, ended in divorce in 1961. After his honorable discharge from the service Haines studied literature at Columbia University, the University of Arizona and the University of California, Berkeley.
After graduating, he worked for the radio station Pacifica Radio and met the director Joseph Strick know, through whose mediation he got a job at Columbia Pictures and later hired him as co- author for the feature film adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses. For her knitting Adapted Screenplay and Haines in 1967 nominated for an Oscar. Both worked together on an adaptation of then Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, due to creative differences ended Haines but his cooperation. He worked then for several years at the completion of the feature film adaptation of Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf, where he also led the government.
During the filming of Ulysses in Ireland Haines had met his second wife. When these ill with multiple sclerosis, the couple moved to Ireland, where they lived in the house of Constantine Fitzgibbon. During this time, Haines was the Irish television station RTÉ hired and worked as a theater director in Dublin. 1984 both moved back to Los Angeles, where Haines in 1992 for the TV movie sailing tour of horror collaborated once more with Joseph Strick.
Haines second marriage ended in divorce in 2000. He died in 2008 of complications from lung cancer.